The Tomb of Ramesses VI Texts and Plates ( 2 Volumes in slipcase ); Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations. Bollingen Series XL
New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1954. First Edition. Hardcovers, 2 Volume Set housed in brown cloth slip-case, with paper title-label. Large Quartos. Vol. 1 (Text): xx + 460 pp, Original publisher's cloth: brown cloth spine with beige cloth boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt emblem on front cover, color illustrations, fold-out pages. Vol. 2 (Plates): original publisher's cloth clamshell type portfolio: brown cloth spine with beige cloth boards, gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt emblem on front cover, housing a 16pp list of plates (booklet in printed brown wrappers) and 196 loose plates. From the editorial note: This is the first of a series of publications on Egyptian religion which will include the complete photographic recording of hitherto unpublished royal tombs, important mythological papyri, and miscellaneous cosmological texts and symbolical representations. The series will include, where possible, the full translation of texts.
The present work is devoted to the tomb of Ramesses VI, at Thebes, and is in two parts: a volume containing, in translation, and reconstructed in so far as possible, the texts inscribed on the walls and ceilings of the tomb, together with reconstructed diagrams of the representations, certain text collations, and additional plates of variants from other tombs; and a portfolio of collotype plates constituting a complete photographic recording of the tomb. The plates are looseleaf, so that they may be studied in sequence along with the texts and diagrams.
The study is based on the work of an expedition sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation during the period from October, 1949, to June, 1951.
A little light tanning to the pastedowns, otherwise both volumes are in Near-Fine condition, in VG+ slip-case: there are a few small marks on the title label of the slip-case, and it is a little rubbed, and has a few slightly discolored patches.
Large heavy set, will require additional shipping (charged at cost). Item #59427
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